counting number

noun

Examples of counting number in a Sentence

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But Seager has put together a monstrous offensive season despite his two stints on the injured list and may have been the outright frontrunner for the AL MVP award if his counting numbers hadn’t taken a hit due to missed games. Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023 The raw counting numbers on their own are pretty good. Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 12 May 2023 The problem itself may sound quite straightforward, because the counting numbers and the study of mathematics are thousands of years old. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023 And imagine that your available denominators are the counting numbers 1 to 10. Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2019 The conjecture predicts that there are infinitely many such pairs among the counting numbers, or integers. Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2019 To construct a finite field, start by extracting a finite subset of numbers from the counting numbers. Wired, 29 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of counting number was circa 1965

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“Counting number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counting%20number. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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